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When community aging creates informal care burdens

My 89-year-old neighbor has been asking me to check on her more often and I can see she's scared of dying alone but I don't know how to carry that responsibility.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social connection with aging neighbors can generate unexpected moral obligations.

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